The Adornment of the Middle Way: Shantarakshita's Madhyamakalankara with Commentary by Jamgon Mipham, by Shantarakshita and Jamgon Mipham, translated by Padmakara Translation Group Vajrakilaya By becoming intimate with this

By becoming intimate with this practice while we’re alive

and Paltrul Rinpoche

Title: NAGARJUNA’S LETTER TO A FRIEND

skillfully arranged by the translation/author team of Erik Pema Kunsang and Marcia Binder Schmidt

The Adornment of the Middle Way: Shantarakshita's Madhyamakalankara with Commentary by Jamgon Mipham, by Shantarakshita and Jamgon Mipham, translated by Padmakara Translation Group Vajrakilaya By becoming intimate with thisMadhyamaka, or the Middle Way, is accepted by all schools of Tibetan Buddhism as the most profound expression, in philosophical terms, of emptiness, the true nature of phenomena. Emptiness is the basis on which the whole of Mahayana practice is founded, from the mind training meditations on bodhichitta to the advanced yogas of tantra and dzogchen. The Madhyamaka tradition, inaugurated by Nagarjuna and dominant in India for over a thousand years,